I recently got couple external hard rives to backup my personal data. I don't want someone to just be able to plug it in and access all my information. I was wondering if there was an effective convenient way to password protect a folder. I know I could zip and apply a password to it but this...
I'm looking at the WD support section and theres a software called "Spindown or Stop Utility version". Is this the software I need to download in order to stop the sleep mode?
Might be a stupid question but can I just throw away Hardrives (internal) in the trash? I have a couple old drives that are old/broken that I need to get rid of.
I just got 2 externals (western digital 500gb) via USB and it feels like my computer is running much slower. Also one of the drives goes into sleep mode every hour or so and its annoying cause i keep having to turn the button back on, the WD Rep said try plugging it in a surge protector and it...
Today I started my computer up and before Windows loaded up it said something liek S.M.A.R.T has detected an error in your hard drive in IDE 3 that could corrupt your hard disk and that you should back up now.
Whats an IDE 3? also is this something serious that I should start backing...
Whenever I download a video or view some large photos I get a cannot play cause the file has been corrupted notice. For example if I download a .zip or a large video file it wont open cause the file has been corrupt. But for some reason when I download/upload through FTP it works fine. Does...
I've been downloading various media/files lately, wmv files - zip files - etc... It seems like almost all of them are corrupted and I can't extract them or play them. I'm not sure if its the problem with my internet or hardrive.. I download from various sources so it shouldnt be the servers...
I'm trying to create a network that runs through our linksys router, I ran the network setup wizard in windows and at the end it told me to create a network setup disk. However none of our computers have Floppy drives, is tehre a way to set this up without a floopy disk?
My "H: Drive" just got renamed to "THE DARK SIDE | SEDRA | DISK1 (H:)". I'm not sure what happend it was when my brother was on the internet and I"m not sure what he did. Like when I go to My Computer the hardrive is renamed and the logo is different. Did I just get a virus?
My Mom somehow forgot her User password for her Windows XP account so she's been using Guest login. I'm trying to install some virus and spyware removal programs since its running really slow but I'm unable to do so since its not under the administrative account. Is there a way to retrieve the...
Try sizing down on applications/multimedia you dont need as well. Some applications automatically launch and hog up resources. Also invest in some faster hardrives, especially the drive where windows is installed. From my personal expierences the Raptors or SATA 3.0 drives are much faster than...
My friend just built his computer but its running pretty slow, it's not spyware or virus anything since he just installed it.
Specs:
Intel Pentium D 950
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116240
P5W DH Deluxe...
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